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Wikimédiens du Bénin/Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos contest in Benin
The Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) is an annual campaign where Wikipedians across Wikipedia language projects and communities add photos to Wikipedia articles lacking of images. This is to promote the use of digital media files collected from various Wikimedia photography contests, photowalks organized by the Wikimedia community, on Wikipedia article pages. Photos help to grasp the reader's attention better than a wall of text, illustrate content, and make the article more instructive and engaging for readers. Thousands of images have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons via various advocacy programs, photowalks, and contests including international photography contests such as Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, etc. Yet relatively few of these photos have been used on Wikipedia articles. Today, the Wikimedia Commons hosts millions of photo images but only a tiny portion of these have been used on Wikipedia article pages. This is a huge gap that this project aims at bridging.
targetWikipedia french, wikipedia fon incubator and Wikimedia Commons
start date1st July
end date31st August
budget (local currency)825 000 XOF Franc CFA
budget (USD)$US 1,427.47
grant typeGroup (on behalf of the user group)
grantee• Azogbonon
contact(s)• constantazogbonon(_AT_)gmail.com• Fawaz.tairou
organization (if applicable)• Wikimédiens du Bénin User Group
website (if applicable)• Wikimédiens du Bénin User Group


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Project Goal

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Choose one or more of the following goals. You can add or delete goals as needed.

  1. To improve the quality, reliability, and credibility of Wikipedia articles across french language and Wikipedia Fon incubator.
  2. To promote the use of digital media files collected from various photography contests, photowalks organized by the Wikimedia community, on Wikipedia article pages.
  3. Reinforce the level of the members of our User Group through training.
  4. Engagement of existing editors of our User Group.

Project Plan

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Program

  1. Online contest presentation session through Zoom
  2. Practical support and follow-up sessions for participants as part of the contest (July - August) (Zoom)
  3. Special coaching sessions for novice members (Zoom)


Activities

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Tell us how you'll carry out your project. Be sure to answer the following questions:
1. What content will the contest focus on, and why is it important to your community?

This contest would focus on the use of free media files on Wikipedia articles. Thousands of images have been donated and contributed to Wikimedia Commons via various advocacy programs, photowalks, and contests including international photography contests such as Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, etc. Yet relatively few of these photos have been used on Wikipedia articles. Today, the Wikimedia Commons hosts over 62 millions photo images but only a tiny portion of these have been used on Wikipedia article pages. This is a huge gap that this project aims at bridging.

2. How will you let people know about the contest?

We have whatsApp, a Facebook and Telegram groups of our User Group members who live in the cities of Cotonou, Porto-Novo, Grand-Popo, Bohicon and Parakou ; they have already been informed of the competition through this channel and are ready to participate. We'll also boost publications on our facebook page and instagram account to reach and involve more people.

3. How will you judge the contest and award prizes?

In addition to collaboration with the contest organizers, we will have to use the Outreach dashboard to assess the number of contributions of each participant.

4. For photo contests, what is the strategy to get images used on projects?

We will work mainly with the members of our User Group ; They will be trained in the discovery of Commons and on how to use images on Wikipedia articles. Tools for Wiki Loves Photo Competitions will provide us the images from previous contests held in Benin.

5. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?

Some members of our User Group have different levels of knowledge and skills, this competition is also an opportunity for us in the current context (Covid-19), to train them and to be able to stay in touch ; several training and support sessions have been planned for this purpose.

Impact

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How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets and feel free to add more:

For photo contests:

  1. Number of participants : 20 participants
  2. 1000 images are used on Wikipedia articles
  3. 200 articles are improved with photos
  4. 1 language Wikipedia (french) and 1 wikipedia incubator (Fon) are improved

Resources

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What resources do you have? Include information on who is organizing the project, what they will do, and if you will receive support from anywhere else (in-kind donations or additional funding).

We have three project organizers:

What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.

1st prize : 100 000 FCFA
2nd prize : 75 000 FCFA
3rd prize : 50 000 FCFA
Internet connection for participants (Launch event and 4 sessions) : 2500 x 5 x 20 = 250 000 FCFA
Internet connection and Zoom pro account for trainings (5 sessions) : 250 000 FCFA
Communication (Facebook and Online advertising) : 100 000 FCFA
Total Budget : 825 000 FCFA

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